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  • Genómica computacional

    Pese a la enorme abundancia de aplicaciones bioinformáticas, los investigadores en Biología molecular, Genética y Biomedicina todavía no han logrado extraer el máximo rendimiento de todo este volumen de información. No obstante, el acceso a estos datos, probablemente, aceleraría sus proyectos sustancialmente, permitiendo la búsqueda de candidatos para realizar ensayos en los laboratorios con mayor ... Read more

    $9.31 USD

  • Vaccinated

    From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines

    "Medical writing at its finest."—David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deep Life

    The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond

    The thrilling quest for subsurface life on Earth and other planetsDeep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the solar system.Tullis Onstott, named one of the 100 most influential people in America by Time magazine, provides ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Did You Just Eat That?: Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab

    Is the five-second rule legitimate?Are electric hand dryers really bacteria blowers?Am I spraying germs everywhere when I blow on my birthday cake?How gross is backwash?When it comes to food safety and germs, there are as many common questions as there are misconceptions. And yet there has never been a book that clearly examines the science behind these important issues—until now. In Did You Just ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fatal Strain

    On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic

    by Alan Sipress ...
    In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian flu broke out in Asia in 2003 and raced westward, Sipress, as a reporter for The Washington Post, tracked the virus across nine countries, watching its secrets elude the world's brightest scientists and most intrepid ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Microbia

    A Journey into the Unseen World Around You

    by Eugenia Bone ...
    From Eugenia Bone, the critically acclaimed author of Mycophilia, comes an approachable, highly personal look at our complex relationship with the microbial world.While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • I Contain Multitudes

    The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

    by Ed Yong ...
    New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking... ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen ...
    A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Mortality

    An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    by John Kelly ...
    “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Clean

    The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less

    by James Hamblin ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Vanity FairOne of Smithsonian's Ten Best Science Books of 2020“A searching and vital explication of germ theory, social norms, and what the modern era is really doing to our bodies and our psyches.” —Vanity FairA preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

    The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Missing Microbes

    How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

    “In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant infections.”—NatureRenowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

    A Life in Neuroscience

    Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Viral Storm

    The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

    by Nathan Wolfe ...
    “One of the world’s foremost virus hunters” (Financial Times), Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the origins of the world’s most deadly diseases and how we can combat and stop contagions.A “mix of biology, history, medicine, and first-hand experience [that] is potent and irresistible,”* The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age shares information Wolfe uncovered on his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

    And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease

    A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep.Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Perfect Predator

    A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

    An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more."A memoir that reads like a thriller." -New York Times Book Review"A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating outcomes of antibiotic misuse**-**and what happens when standard health care falls short." **-**Sc... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Microbiology

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    Get the information you need to know regarding Microbiology with this handy guide. It contains information on: the history of microbiology, kingdoms, prokaryotes & eukaryotes, cell theory and much more. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fever

    How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

    by Sonia Shah ...
    In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How the Earth Turned Green

    A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

    This “amazing and wonderful book” explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know (Choice).On this blue planet, long before dinosaurs reigned, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind

    A Unified Theory of Life and Intelligence

    In this “engaging” book, a noted neurosurgeon explores the possibility of intelligence in bacteria and other microorganisms (Library Journal).It has a goal and a strategy to achieve it. It disguises itself as it stealthily surveys its enemy’s vulnerabilities. It mobilizes its resources to conquer. It bides its time until it is certain it can overwhelm its victim. Then it attacks. If it detects ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biography of Resistance

    The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens

    Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

    "Sure to become a game-changing guide to the future of good food and healthy landscapes." —Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third PlatePrepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and for plants—depends on Earth’s smallest creatures. Restoring life to their barren yard and recovering from a health crisis, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD